This unique audiobook (in 14 parts) will help you to become a fluent English speaker, whilst giving you language tips and lots of motivation all at the same time!
Please listen to the recording of Part 8 a few times, then read the text below to yourself, then read it out loud as many times as you can.
Over time, doing this will help YOU to become a fluent English speaker.
How to become a fluent English speaker- Part 8
Today I want to do something practical to help me improve. Grammar is at the heart of the English language. Being able to use grammar correctly and appropriately is the key to mastering a language. But it’s not enough to read grammar lists to myself quietly. At the very least I need to practise saying them out loud, but the best thing to do is to play around by adding vocabulary I already know to the grammar that I’m studying.
Here is an example of something I can do. Let’s say I’m learning the present continuous tense- I’m writing, she’s writing, we’re writing etc or I’m eating, he’s eating, they’re eating. Instead of just reading these I could make up sentences, like ‘I’m writing a book’ or ‘I’m eating lunch with my friends’. ‘They’re speaking’ becomes, ‘They’re speaking about something important’ or ‘I think they’re speaking in the kitchen.’
I can keep adding more and more vocabulary to these sentences, so that the sentence becomes: ‘I’m writing a book about London, and I can’t wait to share it with you,’ or ‘I’m eating lunch with my friends in a restaurant, why don’t you come and join us?’
These are simple examples, but the principle can be applied to any grammatical construct that I’m studying. The important thing is to keep building on what I already know by adding more words, phrases and sentences. And the most important thing is that I say these out loud to myself or use them in conversation with others.
